Mobile station, repeater, trunking communication system and method therefor

ABSTRACT

A communication method for a mobile station comprises: monitoring broadcast information sent by a currently-residing repeater, wherein the broadcast information carries state information of repeaters within a site and call related information, and a main repeater of the mobile station belongs to the site; acquiring a state of the main repeater according to the broadcast information; determining whether there is a call belonging to the mobile station according to the call related information; and when determining that there is a call belonging to the mobile station, performing handover, according to the call related information, to a repeater corresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station to access the call.

CROSS REFERENCE

The present disclosure is the 371 application of PCT Application No.PCT/CN2014/095997 filed Dec. 31, 2014, which is based on and claimspriority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201410117883.4, filed Mar.26, 2014, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein byreference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the filed of digital communication,and more particularly, to a mobile station in a trunking communicationsystem, a repeater, as well as a trunking communication system and amethod thereof.

BACKGROUND

Trunking communication systems are mainly used in the field ofspecialized mobile communication. Available channels of the systems maybe shared by all users within the system, having a function ofautomatically selecting channels. The systems are multipurpose andhigh-efficiency digital dispatch communication systems capable ofsharing resources, sharing the expenses, and sharing channels andservices.

According to different dispatch control modes, the trunkingcommunication systems may be classified into centralized trunkingcommunication systems and distributed trunking communication systems.The centralized trunking communication system have specialized controlchannels and control centers. In an idle state, mobile stations alwaysmonitor the control channels, and at ordinary times the control channelsmaintain long emission states. Every time when a conversation isrequired, the mobile stations need to send requests to the systems oncontrol channels, waiting for the systems to allocate required servicechannels. The mobile station is switched to allocated service channelsto communicate, and then return to the control channels upon completionof communication. The systems carry out centralized management andallocation of service channel resources through a control center.

The distributed trunking communication systems generally have nodedicated control channel. Any channel in the systems may serve as aservice channel and achieve corresponding management and controlfunctions. The mobile station may reside on any channel to communicate.

Due to centralized management of channel resources, the centralizedtrunking communication systems may better implement sharing andallocation of channel resources and improve a utilization factor of thechannel resources. However, to a certain extent the channel resourcesare wasted because dedicated control channels are required. In addition,this solution is very high in construction and maintenance cost, farbeyond bearing capability of many mid-to-low level and small-scaleclients.

The distributed trunking communication systems are moderate on scale,low in cost, and needless of dedicated control channels, but need tosolve a problem of channel resource allocation and sharing because ofhaving no dedicated control center. Although at present Motorala'sCapacity Plus solution solves the problem of channel resource sharing,but a key technology thereof is that a rest channel needs to be set upso that all mobile stations not participating into calls may reside onthe rest channel to monitor to ensure called mobile stations may betimely paged. Since all the mobile stations monitor on the rest channel,when a plurality of mobile stations simultaneously launch an access onthe rest channel, an access failure may be caused due to collision.

This section provides background information related to the presentdisclosure which is not necessarily prior art.

SUMMARY

The present disclosure provides a mobile station, a repeater, a trunkingcommunication system and a method thereof, which may allow a system tofurther improve a call access success rate based on channel resourcesharing.

Additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure willpartially be set forth in the following description and will partiallybecome apparent from the description, or may be realized by the practiceof the present disclosure.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided acommunication method for a mobile station, used in a trunkingcommunication system and including: monitoring broadcast informationsent by a currently-residing repeater, wherein the broadcast informationcarries state information of repeaters within a site and call relatedinformation, and a main repeater of the mobile station belongs to thesite; acquiring a state of the main repeater according to the broadcastinformation, wherein when the main repeater is idle, thecurrently-residing repeater serves as the main repeater, and when themain repeater is busy, the currently-residing repeater serves as a freerepeater, the free repeater being a predetermined repeater with an idlestate within the site; determining whether there is a call belonging tothe mobile station according to the call related information; and whendetermining that there is a call belonging to the mobile station,performing handover, according to the call related information, to arepeater corresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station toaccess the call.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provideda communication method for a repeater, used in a trunking communicationsystem and including: generating broadcast information according tostates of repeaters within a site to which the repeater belongs and callrelated information; and sending the broadcast information carryingstate information of the repeaters within the site to which the repeaterbelongs and the call related information, so that a mobile stationmonitoring the repeater determines the states of the repeaters withinthe site according to the state information of the repeaters andexecutes call access related operations according to the call relatedinformation.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there isprovided a mobile station, used in a trunking communication system andincluding: a monitoring unit configured to monitor broadcast informationsent by a currently-residing repeater where the mobile station currentlyresides, wherein the broadcast information carries state information ofrepeaters within a site and call related information, and a mainrepeater of the mobile station belongs to the site; a determining unitconfigured to: receive the broadcast information sent by the monitoringunit and acquire a state of the main repeater according to the broadcastinformation, wherein when the main repeater is idle, thecurrently-residing repeater serves as the main repeater, and when themain repeater is busy, the currently-residing repeater serves as a freerepeater, the free repeater being a predetermined repeater with an idlestate within the site; determine whether there is a call belonging tothe mobile station according to the call related information; and sendpositioning information and an access indication when there is a callbelonging to the mobile station; and an access unit, configured toreceive the positioning information and the access indication sent bythe determining unit, and perform, according to the positioninginformation and the access indication, handover to a repeatercorresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station to access thecall.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there isprovided a repeater, used in a trunking communication system andincluding: a generating unit configured to generate broadcastinformation according to states of repeaters within a site to which therepeater belongs and call related information; and an informationsending unit configured to send the broadcast information carrying stateinformation of the repeaters within the site to which the repeaterbelongs and the call related information, so that a mobile stationmonitoring the repeater determines the states of the repeaters withinthe site according to the state information of the repeaters andexecutes call access related operations according to the call relatedinformation.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there isprovided a mobile station, used in a trunking communication system andincluding: a processor, and a memory configured to store instructionsexecutable by the processor; where the processor is configured to:monitor broadcast information sent by a currently-residing repeater,wherein the broadcast information carries state information of repeaterswithin a site and call related information, and a main repeater of themobile station belongs to the site; acquire a state of the main repeateraccording to the broadcast information, wherein when the main repeateris idle, the currently-residing repeater serves as the main repeater,and when the main repeater is busy, the currently-residing repeaterserves as a free repeater, the free repeater being a predeterminedrepeater with an idle state within the site; determine whether there isa call belonging to the mobile station according to the call relatedinformation; and when determining that there is a call belonging to themobile station, perform handover, according to the call relatedinformation, to a repeater corresponding to the call belonging to themobile station to access the call.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there isprovided a repeater, used in a trunking communication system andincluding: a processor, and a memory configured to store instructionsexecutable by the processor; where the processor is configured to:generate broadcast information according to states of repeaters within asite to which the repeater belongs and call related information, andsend the broadcast information carrying state information of therepeaters within the site to which the repeater belongs and the callrelated information, so that a mobile station monitoring the repeaterdetermines the states of the repeaters within the site according to thestate information of the repeaters and executes call access relatedoperations according to the call related information.

According to the present disclosure, by designing various broadcastinformation and broadcast the information for different scenarios, thecall information may be acquired by the mobile station under anycircumstances and under any repeater to accurately position and access acall of the repeater, reduce a possibility of call lose, allow a systemto support multi-call at the same moment and reduce a probability ofsystem access conflict.

This section provides a summary of various implementations or examplesof the technology described in the disclosure, and is not acomprehensive disclosure of the full scope or all features of thedisclosed technology.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other features and advantages of the present disclosurewill become more apparent from the detailed description of an exemplaryembodiment with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a digital communication systemaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of a method for call positioning andaccessing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of site status informationaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of priority call information sentby using a short LC proprietary signaling of an embedded CACH accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 illustrates a schematic diagram of priority call information sentby using a voice link control header according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic diagram of priority call information sentby using pre-carrier signaling (PreCSBK) according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure;

FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic diagram of a mobile station quicklypositioning a mobile station when all repeaters within a site are busyaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 illustrates a flowchart of a method for call positioning andaccessing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 illustrates a block diagram of a mobile station according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 illustrates a block diagram of a repeater according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 11 illustrates a schematic structural diagram of a voice embeddedsignaling according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 12 illustrates a block diagram of a mobile station according toanother embodiment of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 13 illustrates a block diagram of a repeater according to anotherembodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

An exemplary embodiment will be described more comprehensively withreference to the accompanying drawings. However, the exemplaryembodiment may be carried out in various manners, and shall not beinterpreted as being limited to the embodiment set forth herein;instead, providing these embodiments will make the present disclosuremore comprehensive and complete, and will fully convey the conception ofthe exemplary embodiment to those skilled in the art.

Characteristics, features or structures as described may be incorporatedinto one or more embodiments in any right way. In the followingdescription, many specific details are provided to facilitate sufficientunderstanding of an embodiment of the present disclosure. However, thoseskilled in the art shall appreciate that the technical solutions in thepresent disclosure may be practiced without one or more of the specificdetails, or other methods or structures and so on may be employed. Inother circumstances, well-known structures or methods are not shown ordescribed in detail to avoid confusion of the present disclosure.

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of a digital communication systemaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG.1, the digital communication system 10 includes: at least one site 11, aplurality of repeaters 12 and a plurality of mobile stations 13.

The site 11 is a set consisting of the repeaters 12 and the mobilestations 13, which may be, for example, a network site. Each site 11 isassociated with different (but possibly overlapped) geographicalcoverage areas. Each site 11 may include a plurality of repeaters 12. Ineach site 11, the repeaters 12 are respectively connected to a wide areanetwork (WAN) or a local area network (LAN) through network devices suchas switches 14 or routers 15 and so on. Each repeater 12 sends orreceives control signaling and user data (data/voice/video/image/textand so on) to or from one or more mobile stations 13 on one or morechannels. In a time division multiple access system, a channel includesa frequency and a slot.

Each repeater 12 may represents an idle state and a busy state. If arepeater 12 has an idle slot, the repeater 12 is in the idle state;otherwise, the repeater is in the busy state. For example, in a digitalmobile radio (DMR) system in a two-slot mode, when at least one slot isidle, the repeater 12 is considered to have an idle slot, namely, be inan idle state. On the contrary, when both two slots are occupied, therepeater is considered to be in a busy state.

In one site 11, a plurality of mobile stations 13 may be divided into atleast one talkgroup, where each talkgroup has one main repeater. In thesite 11, any repeater may serve as a main repeater in differenttalkgroups, which may be equally distributed to different mainrepeaters. When a main repeater within the site is in an idle state(idle slot), a mobile station in the talkgroup always monitors the mainrepeater.

Any repeater whose state is idle may be selected as a free repeater. Ineach site 11, only one free repeater exists at the same moment. Otherrepeaters in an idle state not designated as free repeaters are definedas idle repeaters. An idle repeater may be designated as a new freerepeater at any time. When an idle repeater does not receive any uplinkinformation, the idle repeater may periodically enter into an awakeningstage to broadcast proprietary signaling information (referring to thesite state information as shown in FIG. 3).

When all slots (for example, to a DMR 2-slot mode, a repeater includestwo slots) on one repeater are occupied, the repeater is in a busystate, which is referred to as a busy repeater. If a mobile stationresides on the busy repeater does not participate into a call, the busyrepeater needs to be automatically switched to a free repeater tomonitor.

In one site 11, a mobile station 13 not making call always monitors themain repeater in a talkgroup to which the mobile station belongs. Whenthe main repeater in a talkgroup to which the mobile station belongsturns to a busy state, the mobile station 13 is switched to a freerepeater in the site 11 to continue monitoring. When the main repeaterin a talkgroup to which the mobile station belongs turns to an idlestate again, the mobile station 13 immediately returns to the mainrepeater in a talkgroup to which the mobile station belongs to continuemonitoring.

When monitoring that there is a call belonging to the mobile station onany repeater, the mobile station 13 may also be immediately switched tothe repeater for a call access.

According to the communication system of the present disclosure, bydesigning to broadcast various signalings in different scenarios, anobjective of timely informing a mobile station to acquire callinformation in any case may be achieved, without limiting an awaitingand monitoring a location of the mobile station. At ordinary times, themobile station may reside on any channel, which may quickly position andaccess a call of the mobile station and improve a reliability of thecall.

According to the present disclosure, the mobile station may await ondifferent repeaters. At any time when a call is generated on otherrepeaters, the mobile station may be timely switched to a correspondingrepeater to access the call. This may be achieved by embedding variousbroadcast control information in different cases.

FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of a method for call positioning andaccessing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in FIG. 2, in Step S201, a mobile station monitors broadcastinformation of a currently-residing repeater.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the broadcastinformation includes site state information and priority callinformation so as to receive an ordinary call/a priority call when notparticipating in a call.

The site state information is used for broadcasting service stateinformation of all repeaters within a site and call target addressinformation so that a mobile station subordinated to the site may learnabout communication of all the repeaters within the site, and may timelylearn whether there is a call belonging to the mobile station within thecurrent site so that the mobile station may quickly perform handover toa repeater (the repeater forwarding the call) corresponding to the callto access the call, thereby avoiding call lose. The site stateinformation may be, for example, broadcast periodically.

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of site state informationaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG.3, a site state information protocol data unit (PDU) may include, forexample, an information element (IE) as follow.

TABLE 1 Information Element (IE) Length Value Remark Serial Number 2-bit0 Indicating logic channels CH1~CH6 (SN) in repeaters R1-R3 within asite 1 Indicating logic channels CH7~CH12 in repeaters R4-R6 within thesite 2 Indicating logic channels CH13~CH18 in repeaters R7-R9 within thesite 3 Reserved Site State Opcode 6-bit 0x0A Site state informationoperation code MFID 8-bit 0x68 Characteristic ID identification codeFree Repeater 4-bit 0 Indicating that all repeaters within the Num siteare in busy state 1-15 Indicating an index number of a current freerepeater Repeater1 state 4-bit See Table 2 Repeater2 state 4-bit SeeTable 2 Repeater3 state 4-bit See Table 2 Repeater1 target 16-bit  SeeTable 3 address Repeater2 target 16-bit  See Table 3 address Repeater3target 16-bit  See Table 3 address

TABLE 2 IE Length Value Remark TimeSlot1.State 1-bit 0 Indicating alogic channel 1 is idle 1 Indicating the logic channel 1 is busyTimeSlot1.Activity 1-bit 0 There is activated individual call on slot 11 There is activated group call on slot 1 TimeSlot2.State 1-bit 0Indicating a logic channel 2 is idle 1 Indicating the logic channel 2 isbusy TimeSlot2.Activity 1-bit 0 There is activated individual call onslot 2 1 There is activated group call on slot 2

TABLE 3 IE Length Value Remark TimeSlot1.HashedAddress 8-bit 0~255Compressed target address on slot 1 TimeSlot2.HashedAddress 8-bit 0~255Compressed target address on slot 2

The priority call information is used for broadcasting call informationhaving a higher priority. For example, in a DMR system, the prioritycall information may be broadcast in a short link control (LC)proprietary signaling embedded in a common announcement channel (CACH).

For example, in the DMR system, a short LC proprietary signaling is sentafter being embedded into a CACH, and one short LC proprietary signalingmay be decoded every four CACHes are received. The repeater may alwayssend CACH signalings no matter what kind of service is being processedby the repeater.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, under a premise ofremaining basic information of a DMR air-interface frame unchanged,carrying of additional proprietary signaling information is increased byshortening a scope of bit address information. For example, by using acompressed 8-bit source address and a target address, the free repeaterand priority call information are limited to 16 bits.

FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of priority call information sentby using a short LC proprietary signaling embedded into a CACH accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Table 4, theshort LC signaling PDU may include, for example, IE as below.

TABLE 4 IE Length Value Remark SLCO 4-bit 0x08 Short link control opcodeManufacturer 8-bit 0x68 Characteristic ID Identifier (MFID)identification code Free Repeater Num 4-bit 0 Indicating that allrepeaters within the site are in busy state 1-15 Indicating an indexnumber of a current free repeater PriCall.RptNum 4-bit 1-15 Indicatingan index number of a repeater forwarding a priority callPriCall.HashedAddress 8-bit  0-255 Indicating a compressed targetaddress of a 8-bit priority call

According to the present disclosure, as long as there is an idlerepeater in a system, a mobile station in the same talkgroup may alwaysfind a free repeater (a main repeater or a free repeater) where themobile station may reside. The free repeater may periodically broadcastcall state information of all repeaters and forwarded call addresses bymeans of site state information. When the repeater is awaked, therepeater may always broadcast priority call information in a short LCproprietary signaling in a CACH. If the mobile station detects thatthere is a call belonging to the mobile station by receiving the abovebroadcast information, the mobile station may be immediately switched toa corresponding repeater to access the call belonging to the mobilestation. In this way, the mobile station may receive an ordinarycall/priority call when not participating in a call.

When the currently-residing repeater where the mobile station currentlyresides is busy and thus is unable to continue broadcasting site stateinformation and the mobile station does not need to participate in aservice being forwarded on the repeater, the mobile station may beswitched to a free repeater and resides thereon according to a freerepeater number embedded in a service signaling, and then continuelearning about services on a current channel through site stateinformation on the free repeater and the short LC proprietary signalingin the CACH.

The solutions of the present disclosure allow the mobile station toexecute a call scanning and timely position and access a call belongingto the mobile station no matter which repeater where the mobile stationresides. When a call state is changed, site state information may betimely updated among repeaters to ensure that the mobile station mayobtain correct call information at any moment.

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a process of sendingbroadcast information in a system may be as below.

Site state information and short LC proprietary signaling informationhave always been sent when no service information needs to be sent afterthe repeater is awaked.

A site state signal timer is started after the repeater is dormant.After the time, the site state information and the short LC proprietarysignaling information are automatically started to send out.

All the repeaters may be awaked right away and the site stateinformation and the short LC proprietary signaling information are sentout when individual call, general call or emergency call services aregenerated.

When a group call service is generated, a main repeater in which thisgroup of members resides is awaked and the site state information andthe short LC proprietary signaling information are sent out.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, when a mobilestation is in a call-in-progress state, the mobile station may furthercontinue monitoring the priority call information broadcast after beingembedded into a service signaling, thereby timely positioning andaccessing a call having a higher priority.

Still taking the DMR system as an example, according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure, the priority call information may be, forexample, additional control information embedded into a DMR servicesignaling such as a short link control (LC) signaling embedded into aCACH, a voice link control (LC) header or a PreCSBK and so on.

The method for the sending priority call information by means of theshort LC proprietary signaling information embedded into the CACH isdescribed through FIG. 4 and Table 4, and thus is not unnecessarilyelaborated herein.

The priority call information may also be sent by means of voice LCproprietary signaling information embedded into a voice link controlheader. Every time when establishing a voice service, namely beforetransmitting voice data, one or more voice LC headers may be sent.

FIG. 5 illustrates a schematic diagram of priority call information sentby using a voice link control header according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure. As shown in Table 5, the voice LC header PDU mayinclude, for example, an IE as below.

TABLE 5 IE Length Value Remark Protection flag (PF) 1-bit 0 Reservedbit, default as 0 Preserved (R) 1-bit 0 Reserved bit, default as 0 Fulllink control 6-bit 0-63 Group call: 000000 opcode (FLCO) Individualcall: 000011 End of data: 110000 MFID 8-bit 0x68 Characteristic IDidentification code Emergency 1-bit 0/1 0: Non-emergency call 1:Emergency call Reserved 3-bit Reserved bit Broadcast 1-bit 0/1 0:Non-broadcast call 1: Broadcast call Open Voice Call 1-bit 0/1 0:Non-open channel call Mode (OVCM) 1: Open channel call Priority Level2-bit 00: No priority 01: Priority 1 10: Priority 2 11: Priority 3 FreeRepeater Num 4-bit 0 Indicating that all repeaters within the site arein busy state 1-15 Indicating an index number of a current free repeaterPriCall.RptNum 4-bit 1-15 Indicating an index number of a repeaterforwarding a priority call Target Address 16-bit    1-65535 Calledtarget address PriCall.HashedAddress 8-bit  0-255 Indicating acompressed target address of a 8-bit priority call Source Address16-bit    1-65535 Called source address

The priority call information may also be sent by means of proprietarysignaling information embedded into a PreCSBK. Every time whenestablishing data and signaling services, namely before transmittingactual data packets or signalings, one or more PreCSBKs may be sent.

FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic diagram of priority call information sentby using PreCSBK according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.As shown in Table 6, the PreCSBK PDU may include, for example, IE asbelow.

TABLE 6 IE Length Value Remark Last block (LB) 1-bit 0/1 The value is 1when it is a last block of Control Signaling Block (CSBK) or MultipleBlock Control (MBC) packets Protection flag (PF) 1-bit 0 Reserved bit,default as 0 CSBKO 6-bit 0x3d Control signaling block opcode MFID 8-bit0x68 Characteristic ID identification code Data/CSBK 1-bit 0 Controlsignaling frame followed by PreCSBK 1 Data followed by PreCSBK G/I 1-bit0 Individual call 1 Group call Preserved (R) 6-bit 0 Reserved bit,default as 0 (CBF) 8-bit 0-31 Number of control signaling blocksfollowed by current PreCSBK Free Repeater Num 4-bit 0 Indicating thatall repeaters within the site are in busy state 1-15 Indicating an indexnumber of a current free repeater PriCall.RptNum 4-bit 1-15 Indicatingan index number of a repeater forwarding a priority call Target Address16-bit    1-65535 Called target address PriCall.HashedAddress 8-bit 0-255 Indicating a compressed target address of a 8-bit priority callSource Address 16-bit    1-65535 Called source address

By embedding information such as a free repeater number, a priority callrepeater number and priority call target address information into theabove signalings, call information having a higher priority may beobtained no matter the mobile station resides in any repeater or whetherthe repeater is busy. The mobile station may be timely switched to acorresponding repeater to execute a priority call access according toservice conditions thereof.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the broadcastinformation includes call address information and/or priority callinformation. The call address information may be embedded into anembedded signaling in voice, and as previously mentioned, the prioritycall information may be embedded into a short LC signaling of the CACH.Thus, when all channels within a site are busy, the mobile station mayalso quickly position and access an ordinary call/priority call.

When all the repeaters within the site are busy, all the repeatersforward service information and thus are unable to timely broadcast sitestate information. At this time, mobile stations not participating intoservices are unable to acquire service conditions of other repeaters. Ina conventional method, only a method of scanning may be used to searchwhether services of the repeaters are present. When there are morerepeaters within the site, a search process of the conventional methodis lower in efficiency. In this case, a probability of call lose is alsovery high.

According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, when the mobilestation discovers that all the repeaters within the site are busy, forexample, the mobile station detects that “a free repeater number” IE is0, the mobile station may start a busy system scan. At this time, therepeaters need to alternately fill call information occurred on therepeater and other repeaters into the embedded signaling in voice. FIG.11 illustrates a schematic structural diagram of an embedded signalingin voice according to an embodiment of the present disclosure,specifically filled information definition is as shown in Table 7. Aterminal may determine whether all the repeaters within the site arebusy by resolving “a free repeater number” IE in the site stateinformation. The mobile station may continue monitoring thecurrently-residing cell and obtain call address information belonging tothe mobile station and a repeater number to position and access a callbelonging to the mobile station by resolving an embedded signaling invoice.

TABLE 7 IE Length Value Remark Protection flag (PF) 1-bit 0 Reservedbit, default as 0 Reserved (R) 1-bit 0 Reserved bit, default as 0 Fulllink control 6-bit 0-63 Channel all busy: 110001 opcode (FLCO) MFID8-bit 0x68 Characteristic ID identification code Busy repeater1 call2-bit 0-3  00: There is activated type individual call on slot 1 01:There is activated group call on slot 1 10: There is activatedindividual call on slot 2 11: There is activated group call on slot 2Busy repeater2 call 2-bit 0-3  00: There is activated type individualcall on slot 1 01: There is activated group call on slot 1 10: There isactivated individual call on slot 2 11: There is activated group call onslot 2 Other Busy Repeater 4-bit 1-15 Indicating index numbers of Num1other busy repeaters Other Busy Repeater 4-bit 1-15 Indicating indexnumbers of Num2 other busy repeaters PriCall.RptNum 4-bit 1-15Indicating an index number of a repeater forwarding a priority callTarget Address1 16-bit  Target address of other busy repeater number 1,specifically see Table3 PriCall.HashedAddress 8-bit  0-255 Indicating acompressed target address of a 8-bit priority call Target Address216-bit  Target address of other busy repeater number 2, specifically seeTable3

Taking a DMR system as an example, according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure, when all the repeaters within the site are busy andthe repeaters forward voice services, embedded signaling in voicealternately carries call information occurred on the repeater and otherrepeaters within the site so that the mobile station residing on therepeater may quickly position a call belonging to the mobile stationwithout switching a channel. For example, when all the repeaters withinthe site are busy, contents of Table 5 and Table 7 need to bealternately filled into the voice embedded signaling, a terminaldetermines how to resolve subsequent information contents according to aFLCO domain in Table 5 and Table 7.

FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic diagram of a mobile station quicklypositioning a mobile station when all repeaters within a site are busyaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

For example, a current site includes repeaters R1, R2, . . . , R6. Calladdress information loaded on the R1 includes G1 and G2 respectively.Call address information loaded on the R2 includes G3 and G4respectively. Call address information loaded on the R3 includes G5 andG6 respectively. Call address information loaded on the R4 includes G7and G8 respectively. Call address information loaded on the R5 includesG9 and G10 respectively. Call address information loaded on the R6includes G11 and G12 respectively. Supposing the currently-residingrepeater of the mobile station is R1, a call service needing to beaccessed for the mobile station is G12 occurred on the repeater R6.

For a voice frame structure of the DMR, other control signalings(embedded signaling) may be embedded into intermediate 32 bits andtransmitted together with voice. For a voice superframe structure of theDMR, a part of a voice link control (LC) frame may be respectivelyembedded into intermediate 32-bit locations of four voice frames andtransmitted together with voice.

As shown in FIG. 7, both two slots of R1 are forwarding voice services,call information (for example, a repeater number and call addressinformation) of R1 may be embedded into a first voice link control (LC)signaling. Call information of R2 and R3 is embedded into a second voiceLC signaling. Afterward, call information of R1 is embedded into a nextvoice LC signaling, and call information of R4 and R5 is embedded into astill next voice LC signaling. By analogy, this is not finished untilcall information of R6 is embedded.

If the mobile station currently resides on the repeater R1, when all therepeaters within the site are busy, the mobile station does not need tobe respectively switched to corresponding repeaters R2˜R6 to conduct asearch, but merely needing to reside on the current repeater to resolvevoice LC embedded information. After receiving the fourth voice LCinformation, the terminal may position a call of the terminal on the R6and may be directly switched to R6 to access the call of the terminal.

Definition of the embedded voice LC signaling information may bereferred to Table 7, where “a busy repeater number”, “a busy repeatercall type” and “a target address” IE respectively represents differentrepeater numbers, call types thereon and call address information.

The mobile station may also continue monitoring priority callinformation in a short LC of CACH to determine whether a high-prioritycall is present. If a presence of a priority call is discovered in theshort LC of CACH in a scanning process, the mobile station may beimmediately switched to a corresponding repeater to access a prioritycall.

The DMR system is taken as an example to make a descriptive definitionof the above signaling/information. However, it is to be noted that theabove description is for illustration only and is not used to limit thepresent disclosure. In the DMR system, the site state information and/orpriority call information and/or call address information may be definedas new signaling/information, or may also be implemented by adding theabove information element (IE) into existing signaling/information inthe DMR system. In addition, a signaling/information name and an IEnamed as used in the site state information and/or priority callinformation and/or call address information are used merely forconvenience of description, represent signaling/information orinformation element having different corresponding functions in aninformation interaction process, and are not used for being able tolimit the scope of application of the embodiment of the presentdisclosure. Namely, these names may be not used in some systems, butfrom this it cannot be considered that the technical solutions in theembodiment of the present disclosure cannot be applied to these systems.

As shown in FIG. 2, in Step S202, it is determined whether thecurrently-residing repeater forwards a call belonging to the mobilestation. If there is a call belonging to the mobile station, Step S203is executed, otherwise Step S201 is returned.

For example, the mobile station may determine whether there is a callbelonging to the mobile station by determining “repeater call address”IE in the site state information. If the address is consistent with anaddress belonging to the mobile station, it is considered that there isa call belonging to the mobile station; otherwise, it is considered thatthere is no call belonging to the mobile station.

For another example, the mobile station may determine whether there is acall belonging to the mobile station by determining “priority callcompressed address” IE in the priority call information. If the addressis consistent with an address belonging to the mobile station, it isconsidered that there is a call belonging to the mobile station;otherwise, it is considered that there is no call belonging to themobile station.

For another example, the mobile station may determine whether there is acall belonging to the mobile station by determining call addressinformation forwarded by other repeaters in the embedded signaling invoice. If the address is consistent with an address belonging to themobile station, it is considered that there is a call belonging to themobile station; otherwise, it is considered that there is no callbelonging to the mobile station.

The address belonging to the mobile station includes, for example, theaddress of the mobile station, the address of a group call to which themobile station belongs, or the address of a general call.

As shown in FIG. 2, in Step S203, it is positioned and switched to acorresponding call repeater for a call access.

For example, the mobile station positions a repeater whose “calladdress” IE in the site state information is an address of the mobilestation and is switched to this repeater to execute a call access.

For another example, the mobile station positions a repeater designatedin “priority call repeater number” IE in the priority call informationand is switched to this repeater to execute a priority call access.

For still another example, the mobile station positions a repeater whosecall address in the embedded signaling in voice is an address of themobile station and is switched to this repeater to execute a callaccess.

The site state information, priority call information and voice-embeddedcall information broadcast by a repeater may be provided through, forexample, a site to which the repeater belongs. Namely, the site may sendinformation of repeaters within the site, priority call information,information of free repeaters an all busy call information and so on toall the repeaters subordinated to the site periodically or when theseinformation change, and these repeaters construct the site stateinformation, the priority call information and voice-embedded callinformation according to the information.

FIG. 8 illustrates a flowchart of a method for call positioning andaccessing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shownin FIG. 8, the method for positioning and accessing includes followingsteps.

Step S801: First broadcast information of a currently-residing repeateris monitored.

The currently-residing repeater may include a main repeater and a freerepeater. As previously mentioned, if the main repeater of a talkgroupto which a mobile station belongs is idle, the mobile station alwaysresides in the main repeater to monitor the first broadcast information.Otherwise, the mobile station resides in the current free repeater of atalkgroup to which the mobile station belongs to monitor the firstbroadcast information. Whereas, when the main repeater becomes idle, themobile station returns to and resides in the main repeater.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the firstbroadcast information includes site state information.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the firstbroadcast information includes call address information.

Both the site state information and the call address information havebeen specified in the foregoing embodiment, and thus are notunnecessarily elaborated herein.

Step S802: It is determined whether there is a call belonging to themobile station according to the first broadcast information. Step S803is executed if there is a call belonging to the mobile station.Otherwise, Step S808 is executed.

Step S803: Positioning and handover are performed to a repeatercorresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station to access thecall according to the first broadcast information.

Step S804: The call is accessed and second broadcast information of thecurrently communicating repeater is monitored.

The second broadcast information includes priority call information.

The priority call information has been specified in the foregoingembodiment, and thus is not unnecessarily elaborated herein.

Step S805: It is determined whether there is a call belonging to themobile station according to the second broadcast information. Step S806is executed if there is a call belonging to the mobile station.Otherwise, it is returned to Step S804.

Step S806: Positioning and handover are performed to a repeatercorresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station to access thecall according to the second broadcast information.

Step S807: The priority call is accessed.

Step S808: It is determined whether the currently-residing repeater isbusy, Step S809 is executed if the currently-residing repeater is busy;otherwise it is returned to Step S801.

As previously mentioned, the mobile station may, for example, determinewhether the currently-residing repeater is busy according to states ofrepeaters in the site state information.

Step S809: It is switched to a free repeater, in which a first broadcastmessage is monitored.

As previously mentioned, the free repeater may be, for example, obtainedthrough “free repeater number” IE in the site state information or thepriority call information.

FIG. 9 illustrates a block diagram of a mobile station according to anembodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 9, the mobilestation 13 includes: a monitoring module 131, a determining module 132,and an access module 133.

The monitoring module 131 is configured to monitor broadcast informationof a currently-residing repeater.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the broadcastinformation includes, for example, site state information and prioritycall information.

The site state information is used for broadcasting state information ofall repeaters within a site so that a mobile station subordinated to thesite may learn about communication of all the repeaters within the site,and may timely learn whether there is a call belonging to the mobilestation within the current site so that the mobile station may quicklyperform handover to a repeater corresponding to the call to access thecall. The site state information may be, for example, broadcastperiodically.

The priority call information is used for broadcasting priority callinformation, including a free repeater number, a priority call repeaternumber and priority call address information within the site, etc.Taking a DRM system as an example, the priority call information may besent through a short LC control signaling in a CACH, or may be sentthrough a voice link control signaling embedded into a voice linkcontrol header, or may be sent through a PreCSBK control signalingblock.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the broadcastinformation includes priority call information. When a mobile station isin a call-in-progress state, the mobile station may further continuemonitoring the priority call information embedded into a servicesignaling to timely position and access a call having a higher priority.Still taking the DRM system as an example, the priority call informationmay be, for example, sent through a short LC control signaling in aCACH, or may be sent through a voice link control (LC) signalingembedded into a voice link control (LC) header, or may be sent through aPreCSBK.

According to still another embodiment of the present disclosure, thebroadcast information includes call address information and prioritycall information. When the mobile station finds that all the repeaterswithin the site are busy by, for example, resolving that “a freerepeater number” IE in the site state information is 0, the mobilestation may continue monitoring the currently-residing cell and obtaincall address information belonging to the mobile station to position andaccess a call belonging to the mobile station by resolving an embeddedsignaling in voice.

Still taking the DRM system as an example, the call address informationis sent when all the repeaters within the site are busy, for example,sent through embedded voice link control signaling.

Furthermore, when all the repeaters within the site are busy, the mobilestation may also continue monitor priority call information in a shortLC of CACH to determine whether a high-priority call is present so thatthe mobile station may be immediately switched to a correspondingrepeater to access a priority call.

The determining module 132 is connected to a monitoring module toreceive broadcast information forwarded by the monitoring module,determine whether there is a call belonging to the mobile station amongcalls forwarded in the broadcast information, and send positioninginformation and an access indication to a positioning and access module133 if there is a call belonging to the mobile station.

For example, the determining module 132 may determine whether there is acall belonging to the mobile station by determining “repeater calladdress” IE in the site state information. If the address is consistentwith an address belonging to the mobile station, it is considered thatthere is a call belonging to the mobile station; otherwise, it isconsidered that there is no call belonging to the mobile station.

For another example, the determining module 132 may determine whetherthere is a call belonging to the mobile station by determining “prioritycall compressed address” IE in the priority call information. If theaddress is consistent with an address belonging to the mobile station,it is considered that there is a call belonging to the mobile station;otherwise, it is considered that there is no call belonging to themobile station.

For another example, the determining module 132 may determine whetherthere is a call belonging to the mobile station by determining calladdress information forwarded by other repeaters in embedded signalingin voice. If the address is consistent with an address belonging to themobile station, it is considered that there is a call belonging to themobile station; otherwise, it is considered that there is no callbelonging to the mobile station.

The address belonging to the mobile station includes, for example, theaddress of the mobile station, the address of a group call to which themobile station belongs, or the address of a general call.

The access module 133 is connected to the determining module, and isswitched to a corresponding repeater to execute a call access accordingto positioning information and access indication if the positioninginformation and the access indication of the determining module 132 arereceived.

FIG. 12 illustrates a block diagram of a mobile station according toanother embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 12, themobile station 13 includes: a communication unit 1302, a processing unit1303 and a memory 1304.

The communication unit 1302 may include at least one radio frequency(RF) interface 13021, which may be configured to carry out wirelesscommunication with other mobile stations or repeaters. The communicationunit 1302 may further include one or more wireless transceivers 13022,for example, digital mobile radio (DMR) transceivers, Trans-EuropeanTrunking Radio (TETRA) transceivers, P25 or APCO-25 transceivers,Bluetooth transceivers, Wi-Fi transceivers operated in accordance withIEEE802.11 (for example, 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g), WiMAXtransceivers operated in accordance with IEEE802.16, and/or wirelesstransceivers operated in accordance with other wireless communicationstandards.

The processing unit 1303 typically controls overall operations of themobile station 13, such as the operations associated with display,calls, data communication, and recording operations. The processing unit1303 may include one or more processors 13031 to execute instructions toperform all or part of the steps in the above described methods.Moreover, the processing unit 1303 may include one or more modules whichfacilitate the interaction between the processing unit 1303 and otherunits.

The memory 1304 is configured to store various types of data to supportthe operation of the mobile station 13. Examples of such data includeinstructions for any applications or methods operated on the mobilestation 13, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, video,etc. The memory 1304 may be implemented using any type of volatile ornon-volatile memory devices, or a combination thereof, such as a staticrandom access memory (SRAM), an electrically erasable programmableread-only memory (EEPROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory(EPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a read-only memory(ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, a magnetic or optical disk.

The mobile station 13 may further include a power component 1305, amultimedia component 1306, an audio component 1307, an input/output(I/O) interface 1308.

The power component 1305 provides power to various components of themobile station 13. The power component 1305 may include a powermanagement system, one or more power sources, and any other componentsassociated with the generation, management, and distribution of power inthe mobile station 13.

The multimedia component 1306 includes a screen providing an outputinterface between the mobile station 13 and the user. In someembodiments, the screen may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) and atouch panel (TP). If the screen includes the touch panel, the screen maybe implemented as a touch screen to receive input signals from the user.The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touches,swipes, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensors may not onlysense a boundary of a touch or swipe action, but also sense a period oftime and a pressure associated with the touch or swipe action.

The audio module 1307 is configured to output and/or input audiosignals. For example, the audio component 1307 includes a microphone(“MIC”) configured to receive an external audio signal when the mobilestation 13 is in an operation mode, such as a call mode, a recordingmode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may befurther stored in the memory 1304 or transmitted via the communicationunit 1302. In some embodiments, the audio component 1307 furtherincludes a speaker to output audio signals.

The I/O interface 1308 provides interface for the processor unit 1303and peripheral interface modules, the peripheral interface modules maybe a keyboard, a click wheel and buttons, etc. The buttons may include,but are not limited to, a home button, a volume button, a startingbutton, and a locking button.

In some embodiments, the mobile station 13 may be implemented with oneor more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signalprocessors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs),programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays(FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, or otherelectronic components, for performing the above described methods.

In some embodiments, the present disclosure also provides anon-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions,such as included in the memory 1304, executable by the processor 13031in the mobile station 13, for performing the above-described methods.For example, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may bea ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disc, an optical datastorage device, and the like.

The above method includes following steps.

Broadcast information of the currently-residing repeater for positioningand call accessing is monitored; when the main repeater is idle, thecurrently-residing repeater serves as the main repeater, and when themain repeater is busy, the currently-residing repeater serves as thefree repeater.

It is determined whether there is a call belonging to the mobile stationaccording to the broadcast information.

When it is determined that there is a call belonging to the mobilestation, handover is performed, according to the broadcast information,to a repeater corresponding to the call belonging to the mobile stationto access the call.

FIG. 10 illustrates a block diagram of a repeater according to anembodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 10, the repeater12 includes: an information sending unit 121, a receiving unit 122 and atiming unit 123.

The information sending unit 121 is configured to broadcast site stateinformation, priority call information, voice-embedded call addressinformation.

When a state of the repeater is idle, the information sending unit 121broadcasts the site state information and the priority call information.

When a state of the repeater is busy, the information sending unit 121broadcasts the priority call information.

When receiving a site all busy indication, the information sending unit121 broadcasts the priority call information and the voice-embedded calladdress information.

When receiving a site state signal timer timeout indication, theinformation sending unit 121 sends the site state information and thepriority call information.

When receiving an individual call, general call or emergency callindication, the information sending unit 121 sends the site stateinformation and the priority call information.

When receiving an indication of the group call of a group to which therepeater belongs, the information sending unit 121 sends the site stateinformation and the priority call information.

The receiving unit 122 is connected to the information sending unit 121.When receiving individual call, general call or emergency callinformation, if the repeater is in a dormant state, the repeater isimmediately awaked to send the individual call, general call oremergency call indication to the information sending unit 121. Whenreceiving group call information of a group to which the repeaterbelongs and the repeater is the main repeater of this group, if therepeater is in a dormant state, the repeater is immediately awaked tosend the group call indication of the group to the information sendingunit 121. When receiving repeater all busy information in the site towhich the repeater belongs, the repeater sends a repeater all busyindication in the site to the information sending unit 121.

The timer unit 123 is connected to the information sending unit 121.When the repeater is dormant, a site state signal timer is started. Whenthe timer times out, the site state signal timer timeout indication issent to the information sending unit 121. A length of time of the sitestate signal timer is, for example, a preset value.

Furthermore, the repeater further includes a generating unit, configuredto generate the broadcast information according to states of repeaterswithin a site to which the repeater belongs and call relatedinformation.

FIG. 13 illustrates a block diagram of a repeater according to anotherembodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 13, the repeater12 includes: a communication unit 1202, a processing unit 1203 and amemory 1204.

The communication unit 1202 may include at least one wired or wirelessinput/output (I/O) interface 12021, which may be configured to carry outcommunication with a mobile station or other repeaters. Thecommunication unit 1202 may further include at least one wired orwireless transceiver 12022, where the wireless transceivers may be, forexample, digital mobile radio (DMR) transceivers, Trans-EuropeanTrunking Radio (TETRA) transceivers, P25 or APCO-25 transceivers,Bluetooth transceivers, Wi-Fi transceivers operated in accordance withIEEE802.11 (for example, 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g), WiMAXtransceivers operated in accordance with IEEE802.16, and/or wirelesstransceivers operated in accordance with other wireless communicationstandards. Wired transceivers may be, for example, Ethernettransceivers, Universal Serial Bus (USB) transceivers, or similartransceivers configured to communicate through similar physicalconnection of twisted-pairs, coaxial cables, optical fiber links orwired line networks.

The processing unit 1203 typically controls overall operations of therepeater 12, such as the operations associated with communication andrecording operations. The processing unit 1203 may include one or moreprocessors 12031 to execute instructions to perform all or part of thesteps in the above described methods. Moreover, the processing unit 1203may include one or more modules which facilitate the interaction betweenthe processing unit 1203 and other units.

The memory 1204 is configured to store various types of data to supportthe operation at the repeater 12. Examples of the data include anyapplication program or approach directive for operation of the repeater12. The memory 1204 may be implemented using any type of volatile ornon-volatile memory devices, or a combination thereof, such as a staticrandom access memory (SRAM), an electrically erasable programmableread-only memory (EEPROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory(EPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a read-only memory(ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, a magnetic or optical disk.

In some embodiments, the repeater 12 may be implemented with one or moreapplication specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signalprocessors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs),programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays(FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, or otherelectronic components, for performing the above described methods.

In some embodiments, the present disclosure also provides anon-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions,such as included in the memory 1204, executable by the processor 12031in the mobile station 12, for performing the above-described methods.For example, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may bea ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disc, an optical datastorage device, and the like.

The above method includes following steps.

In each site, when a repeater subordinated to the site is idle, the sitestate information and priority call information are sent to respectivelynotify states of all repeaters within the site and priority call relatedinformation; and/or

when a repeater subordinated to the site is busy, the priority callinformation is sent to notify the priority call related information;and/or

when all the repeaters subordinated to the site are busy, thevoice-embedded call address information is sent to notify callinformation of the repeater and other repeaters.

According to the present disclosure, firstly, by designing variousbroadcast information and broadcast the information in differentscenarios, the call information may be acquired by the mobile stationunder any circumstances and under any repeater to accurately positionand access a call of the repeater, reduce a possibility of call lose,allow a system to support multi-call at the same moment and reduce aprobability of system access conflict. Secondly, through broadcast ofpriority call information, the mobile station may quickly position andaccess a call having a high priority in a call process, therebyguaranteeing a reliability of a high priority service. Thirdly, throughbroadcast of voice-embedded call address information, the mobile stationmay continue reside in a currently-residing cell to receive callinformation of other repeaters, thereby achieving the objective oftimely positioning and access call and reducing an access delay.

The aforementioned solutions are merely exemplary embodiments of thepresent disclosure, to which the present disclosure is not limited. Thetechnical solutions of the present disclosure may be applied to any timedivision multiple access digital communication system. Within the scopeof instruction and spirit of the present disclosure, equivalentsubstitution or modification of any system solution or cascade modemodification of a repeater shall fall within the scope of the claims ofthe present disclosure.

The exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure are shown anddescribed above in detail. It shall be understood that the presentdisclosure is not limited to the disclosed embodiment, and instead, thepresent disclosure intends to encompass various modifications andequivalent replacements within the scope of the appended claims.

1. A communication method for a mobile station, used in a trunkingcommunication system, comprising: monitoring broadcast information sentby a currently-residing repeater, wherein the broadcast informationcarries state information of repeaters within a site and call relatedinformation, and a main repeater of the mobile station belongs to thesite; acquiring a state of the main repeater according to the broadcastinformation, wherein when the main repeater is idle, thecurrently-residing repeater serves as the main repeater, and when themain repeater is busy, the currently-residing repeater serves as a freerepeater, the free repeater being a predetermined repeater with an idlestate within the site; determining whether there is a call belonging tothe mobile station according to the call related information; and whendetermining that there is a call belonging to the mobile station,performing handover, according to the call related information, to arepeater corresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station toaccess the call.
 2. The communication method according to claim 1,wherein the broadcast information comprises site state information; thesite state information at least comprises: call target addressinformation of all repeaters within the site; and the determiningwhether there is a call belonging to the mobile station comprises:determining whether there is a call belonging to the mobile stationaccording to the call target address information of each repeater. 3.The communication method according to claim 2, wherein the site stateinformation further comprises: service states of all the repeaterswithin the site and free repeater number information; the acquiring astate of the main repeater according to the broadcast informationcomprises: determining the state of the main repeater according to aservice state of the main repeater among the service states of all therepeaters; and acquiring the free repeater according to the freerepeater number information.
 4. The communication method according toclaim 1, wherein the broadcast information comprises priority callinformation; the priority call information at least comprises: apriority call repeater number and priority call target addressinformation; and the determining whether there is a call belonging tothe mobile station comprises: determining whether there is a callbelonging to the mobile station according to the priority call targetaddress information; and when determining that there is a call belongingto the mobile station, the repeater corresponding to the call belongingto the mobile station is indicated by the priority call repeater number.5. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcastinformation comprises voice-embedded call address information andpriority call information; the voice-embedded call address informationcomprises a repeater number and call address information in an embeddedsignaling embedded in voice; and the determining whether there is a callbelonging to the mobile station comprises: determining whether there isa call belonging to the mobile station according to the call addressinformation; and when determining that there is a call belonging to themobile station, the repeater corresponding to the call belonging to themobile station is indicated by the repeater number.
 6. The communicationmethod according to claim 1, further comprising: continuing monitoringthe broadcast information sent by the currently-residing repeater whenlearning that all repeaters within the site are busy according to thebroadcast information.
 7. The communication method according to claim 6,wherein the state information of repeaters comprises free repeaternumber information, and the learning that all repeaters within the siteare busy according to the broadcast information comprises: determiningwhether all the repeaters within the site are busy according to the freerepeater number information.
 8. A communication method for a repeater,used in a trunking communication system, comprising: generatingbroadcast information according to states of repeaters within a site towhich the repeater belongs and call related information; and sending thebroadcast information carrying state information of the repeaters withinthe site to which the repeater belongs and the call related information,so that a mobile station monitoring the repeater determines the statesof the repeaters within the site according to the state information ofthe repeaters and executes call access related operations according tothe call related information.
 9. The communication method according toclaim 8, wherein when the repeater is idle, the sent broadcastinformation comprises site status information and priority callinformation, the site status information at least comprises: servicestates of all the repeaters within the site and call target addressinformation, the priority call information at least comprises: apriority call repeater number and priority call target addressinformation, so as to notify the state information of the repeaters andthe call related information; and/or when the repeater is busy, the sentbroadcast information comprises the priority call information to notifythe state information of the repeaters and the call related information;and/or when all the repeaters within the site are busy, the sentbroadcast information comprises voice-embedded call address informationand the priority call information, the voice-embedded call addressinformation comprises a repeater number and call address information inan embedded signaling embedded in voice to notify the state informationof the repeaters and the call related information.
 10. The communicationmethod according to claim 9, when the repeater is idle, furthercomprising: keeping sending the site status information and the prioritycall information after the repeater is awaked; and/or sending the sitestatus information and the priority call information at regular time bymeans of a site state signal timer after the repeater is dormant; and/orawaking all the repeaters within the site and sending the site statusinformation and the priority call information when individual call,general call or emergency call services emerge; and/or awaking, when agroup call service emerges, a main repeater corresponding to a talkgroupof the group call and sending the site status information and thepriority call information, wherein the mobile station within thetalkgroup always resides in the main repeater when the main repeater isidle.
 11. The communication method according to claim 9, wherein thepriority call information is embedded in a short link control signalingof a common announcement channel, or is embedded in a voice link controlheader, or is embedded in a pre-carrier signaling.
 12. The communicationmethod according to claim 9, wherein the embedded signaling in voice isa voice link control frame embedded in a voice superframe structure. 13.The communication method according to claim 12, wherein in a DMR 2-slotmode, call information of the repeater is embedded in a first slot, andcall information of other repeaters is embedded in a second slot. 14.The communication method according to claim 9, wherein the stateinformation of the repeaters comprises free repeater number informationindicating whether all the repeaters within the site are busy. 15.(canceled)
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 17. A mobile station, used in a trunkingcommunication system, comprising: a processor, and a memory configuredto store instructions executable by the processor; wherein according tothe executable instructions, the processor is configured to: monitorbroadcast information sent by a currently-residing repeater, wherein thebroadcast information carries state information of repeaters within asite and call related information, and a main repeater of the mobilestation belongs to the site; acquire a state of the main repeateraccording to the broadcast information, wherein when the main repeateris idle, the currently-residing repeater serves as the main repeater,and when the main repeater is busy, the currently-residing repeaterserves as a free repeater, the free repeater being a predeterminedrepeater with an idle state within the site; determine whether there isa call belonging to the mobile station according to the call relatedinformation; and when determining that there is a call belonging to themobile station, perform handover, according to the call relatedinformation, to a repeater corresponding to the call belonging to themobile station to access the call.
 18. The mobile station according toclaim 17, wherein the broadcast information comprises site stateinformation; the site state information at least comprises: call targetaddress information of all repeaters within the site to which the mobilestation belongs; and the determining by the processor whether there is acall belonging to the mobile station comprises: determining whetherthere is a call belonging to the mobile station according to the calltarget address information of each repeater.
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 20. Themobile station according to claim 17, wherein the broadcast informationcomprises priority call information; the priority call information atleast comprises: a priority call repeater number and priority calltarget address information; and the determining by the processor whetherthere is a call belonging to the mobile station comprises: determiningwhether there is a call belonging to the mobile station according to thepriority call target address information; and when determining thatthere is a call belonging to the mobile station, the repeatercorresponding to the call belonging to the mobile station is indicatedby the priority call repeater number.
 21. The mobile station accordingto claim 17, wherein the broadcast information comprises voice-embeddedcall address information and priority call information; thevoice-embedded call address information comprises a repeater number andcall address information in an embedded signaling embedded in voice; andthe determining by the processor whether there is a call belonging tothe mobile station comprises: determining whether there is a callbelonging to the mobile station according to the call addressinformation; and when determining that there is a call belonging to themobile station, the repeater corresponding to the call belonging to themobile station is indicated by the repeater number.
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 24. A repeater, used in a trunking communication system,comprising: a processor, and a memory configured to store instructionsexecutable by the processor; wherein according to the executableinstructions, the processor is configured to: generate broadcastinformation according to states of repeaters within a site to which therepeater belongs and call related information; and send the broadcastinformation carrying state information of the repeaters within the siteto which the repeater belongs and the call related information, so thata mobile station monitoring the repeater determines the states of therepeaters within the site according to the state information of therepeaters and executes call access related operations according to thecall related information.
 25. The repeater according to claim 24,wherein when the repeater is idle, the broadcast information sent by theprocessor comprises site status information and priority callinformation, the site status information at least comprises: servicestates of all the repeaters within the site and call target addressinformation, the priority call information at least comprises: apriority call repeater number and priority call target addressinformation, so as to notify the state information of the repeaters andthe call related information; and/or when the repeater is busy, thebroadcast information sent by the processor comprises the priority callinformation to notify the state information of the repeaters and thecall related information; and/or when all the repeaters within the siteare busy, the broadcast information sent by the processor comprisesvoice-embedded call address information and the priority callinformation, the voice-embedded call address information comprises arepeater number and call address information in an embedded signalingembedded in voice to notify the state information of the repeaters andthe call related information.
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